Join me, April Showers, today at 9 am Pacific, 10 am Mountain, 11 am Central and Noon Eastern Time for the High Noon Crop. These crops are designed to allow you to work on your own photos and themes simply giving participants a one hour goal and a fun, new challenge each week.Today, August 29th, we’ll do a Photo Manipulation Challenge. Create a layout using a photo you have manipulated in some way - change it to black and white or sepia, remove a distraction, cut out the subject - anything goes!

Create your layout and upload it to the special High Noon Crop and Challenge. You'll be amazed what you can get done in just one hour, but there is no High Noon Sheriff timing you! Hope to see you in the chat room!

I found more photos from 1997 in a little mini album my mother in law gave my kids. I did this as a companion page to one I'd done earlier. Thanks for looking!Grandma & Grandpa VisitI know, not my best page ever, but I wasn't going to re-do the other layouts so I could add in these photos.

Thanks for the great challenge, April! Here is my double-pager, with each page here and here. This definitely did NOT take an hour. I won't say how long this took me, or for how many challenges I worked on it, but it was a labor of love.

I did not get this layout uploaded yesterday, because I was too busy bending my Visa in the sale, (and duplicating an item, ugh!) - and then I come to find today's challenge is also on photo manipulation - so 2 for 1.